I need help on voting up a bug

If you want a rotating backup in SBS 2011 and even Windows 2012 Essentials you have one slightly large problem. There’s what I consider to be a bug in the process. A big bug. But it’s a bug that Microsoft doesn’t see as a bug.

The “bug” resides in the fact that if you want add another usb backup location to your offsite rotation, the only way you can do so is to bring ALL of the drive locations back so that the system sees all of them at the same time and then and only then can you add an additional drive location. If you don’t have all the drives, the wizard won’t let you add a new drive to the disk rotation but you’ll have to set the backups all over again. Which kinda defeats the idea behind father/grandfather backup rotations.

I too have had this issue. very frustrating to say the least! Had it not for the fact that I was using Hyper-V VHDs for backup – I’d never been able to get all disks in rotation online in order to configure backup. I do see possible scenarios where all disks would either not be onsite or perhaps “bad” causing issues when trying to replace the disk in rotation.

We have come across this on three installations where we have added\replaced a backup disk.

More than happy to vote – can’t find the appropriate bug in the Connect Directory.

Another issue we were thinking of raising is the inability of the SBS 2011 backup wizard to exclude specific folders!! We are looking at testing this via Powershell but can’t understand why MS deprecated this from SBS 2003!

As one of those links says, you need to have the first drive in the backup set connected to add additional drives . To say you need ALL drives connected is incorrect. (at least that is what I see in my SBS2011 builds)